The Ambassador (Mads Bruggen, Denmark, 2011, 93 minutes) is a documentary that stands Graham Greene, V. S. Naipaul and Joseph Conrad on their heads.  Think of it as Apocalypse Now–LITE, with a laugh-track and no ending, in …

Joan Miró was not Picasso. That’s the bad news. The good news was that he was Joan  Miró. The more of  Miró’s work that you see, the more you will appreciate that. You’ll see a lot of …

The tribute to Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum of American Art is intended to bring some fun and whimsy to Manhattan this summer. The show that was already at the Tate Modern is now in the city where …

In Savages, director Oliver Stone turns a David and Goliath story into drama by adding sex, drugs and firepower. It’s also a business parable that the Tea Party could weaponize. Stone’s adaptation of the novel by …

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ THE ARTIST IS PRESENT is now present in movie theaters. The release comes after a long victory lap on the festival circuit following the reverential film’s premiere at Sundance 2012, and its sales to …

The striking impression of the sleek modernist box on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway that now houses the Barnes Collection in a design by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien is that it’s not all that bad. C’est …

Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” a fourth version of that Nordic icon, conjured up fears about solitude in the modern world and the insignificance of an individual faced with the enormity and beauty of nature. So much …

Remember Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim’s documentary about the crisis in American education that focused on Washington DC, among other places ? The inquiry into the Texas State Board of Education, The Revisionaries, which made its …

Podcast: Download Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress comes 14 years after the director’s last movie. It’s clever, it’s urbane – that’s not a word you hear these days – and it’s about characters in place that …

AIPAD 2012, New York — If you haven’t noticed, the one percent has money, and it’ s buying. When it comes to photography, it’s buying a lot, according to dealers at AIPAD 2012, the annual fair …